Earth and Sun Sustainable Builders An Earth Bag Building Workshop Taos, New Mexico May 30 – September 29, 2017 earthandsunsustainablebuilders.com Learn sustainable building practices while participating in a hands-on earth bag building project. Co-create with a conscious community. We’ll build an affordable, off-grid home within the local building codes. Be guided from thought form through finished building — literally from the ground up with earth bag walls, conventional metal roof, solar electric, and passive solar. Women and men with varied…

CO-CREATE A SUSTAINABLE EARTHBAG HOME JUNE 26 – OCT. 27, 2017 TAOS, NEW MEXICO Join for a week to four months. Earthbag building is an environmentally friendly and affordable building method suitable to most climates and geographies. Building blocks are made with soil collected on the building site and contained in polypropylene woven bags. In certain circumstances the bags are filled with other materials such as gravel, pumice, or sand. The bags can also be made of natural fibers such…

An Introduction to Ecological Building Techniques With focus on wattle and daub, earth bags, cob, and natural plasters August 19-26, 2017 Intro to Ecological Construction For thousands of years, people have been building their homes out of the dirt beneath their feet. Natural and vernacular building techniques have roots in every culture around the world, but share the distinction of using local materials, being energy efficient, and having a low ecological footprint. Only during the past century have natural building…

At a relaxed pace, we’ll learn and practice mixing and building with Fast Cob!  As the week progresses, you’ll gain the skills and inspiration to build your own structures.  In between hands-on Fast Cob! sessions, we’ll look at foundations, electrical, plumbing, upper floors, roofs, and general design.  Everything you need to go off and start building on your own! Every workshop day, we start with a  meditative building session, followed by a hot, hearty breakfast.  Two longer hands-on learning sessions…

~ Natural Stone Foundation ~ Building Cob Walls ~ Sculptural ~ Artistic Cob ~ Natural & Lime Plasters ~ Earthen (Adobe) Floor Registration Includes: ~ 5 Day Workshop ~ On-site Camping ~ Three Meals a Day Normally $479… Last Minute Special $379! Couples Last Minute Only $649! Register by August 25th and save. See website for more discounts: http://www.DisputantaCob.com Natural Stone Foundation – Site Selection, Site Prep, & Establish Drainage – Choose Materials & Build a Rubble Trench – Prep Stones, Slake…

Join us to learn how about COB and how to build an oven, benches around the oven for an outdoor cooking/ entertainment area and a mobile 5 gallon mini rocket stove for minimal and efficient fuel use! We will be in Santa Cruz near the downtown area on Labor Day weekend so you can hit the beach afterwards or go surfing!

Natural Building Workshop September 15-21, 2017 High Falls, NY Workshop Information The Workshop: Our days will be spent engaged in hands-on building and learning with natural materials. Our project is the completion of a straw bale and earth cottage. We will focus on building and finishing cob walls with earth and lime plasters. We will also work with round-wood carpentry, earth floors. Expect a rich week of natural and community building with the group. We’ll work, learn, eat,and relax with…

Fast Cob! will give you the tools to create shelter, but we’ll also look at many ways to collect rainwater, use greywater, create a garden site and forage wild foods.  All systems we will look at are created and maintained without fossil fuels, using only human, solar, and micro-hydro power. Every workshop day, we start with a  meditative building session, followed by a hot, hearty breakfast.  Two longer hands-on learning sessions sandwich a hot vegetarian lunch.  Two snack breaks make…